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2013 Dean of Faculty Appointments
Clockwise/from bottom left Director of Studies Kevin Rogers, Director of Curricular Initiatives Katharine Jewett, Director of Faculty Development Thomas White, Director of Global Programs Sara Boisvert, and Dean of Faculty Kathyrn Levesque.
Jewett has been Language Department head Katie Levesque, a 14-year veteran of Choate for the past five years, leading both an internal Rosemary Hall’s teaching faculty, was appointed department review and a school-wide review of Dean of Faculty, effective July 1. Katie has served international programs. Working with her colas English Department head since 2010, with leagues, she has introduced 10 new courses to prior experience as a mentor and form head. She the department and helped develop the School’s has also devoted considerable time to curriculum interdisciplinary Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies development, including initiating an ongoing Program. White recently completed a five-year departmental review of writing that yielded a new term as head of the History, Philosophy, Religion course, Intensive Expository Writing. and Social Sciences department. In his new role, Levesque has coached interscholastic and his primary responsibility will be to hire and train intramural teams and has lived in both single and new colleagues and guide the professional developmulti-adviser houses, serving as Head of House in ment of the faculty. Rogers, a 13-year veteran Bernhard since 2008. Former Chair and member of the faculty, is in his second year as Director of the Faculty Committee, she has been an active of Studies. His primary responsibilities include member of the Workload and Compensation monitoring, implementation and oversight of Committee, Strategic Plan Writing Committee, academic policies and academic advising, the iPad Steering Committee, and others. “An acSchool’s speaker programs, the Teaching and complished teacher in her own right and a tireless, Learning Center, and the Andrew Mellon Library. compassionate colleague and friend, I have every Boisvert, who joined the faculty this July, recently confidence that she will make a notable, positive left her position as Director of Global Programs impact in terms of leadership and vision on the at The Pingry School, to serve as Choate’s new academic life of our extraordinary school,” says Director of Global Programs. She will collaborate Headmaster Alex D. Curtis. with Choate faculty to support existing global Joining Katie in the newly reconfigured Dean programs and develop new global learning and of Faculty’s Office is Katharine Jewett, Director service opportunities that extend the Choate of Curricular Initiatives; Thomas White, educational experience beyond the borders of Director of Faculty Development; Kevin our campus. Rogers, Director of Studies and Sara Boisvert, Director of Global Programs.
Co-Director of College Counseling Office Appointed Marcia L. Landesman, of Woodbridge, Conn., has been appointed Co-Director of College Counseling Office effective July 1. Landesman, who was previously Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale from 2001 to 2013, has 14 years of university administration experience. A graduate of Swarthmore, she began her career as Assistant Dean of Admission there. She then took a hiatus from admission work, earning a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1996, after which she worked as a litigation associate at two major international law firms, Sidley Austin and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. At Yale, Landesman coordinated the Yale Alumni Schools Committee Program which oversees approximately 10,000 alumni interviewers throughout the world. Says Associate Headmaster Kathleen Lyons Wallace, “Marcia’s experience and expertise complement those of her colleagues in the College Counseling Office, and the resultant collaboration will ensure the steady evolution of an already-strong office.”